Plans to double the size of the 68,500-square-foot Mission District office building at 2300 Harrison Street, which was leased to Lyft before their move to China Basin, are in the works.

As proposed, a five-story addition would rise over the building’s current parking lot to the south. In addition to a replacement garage for 41 cars, the addition would yield an additional 26,600 square feet of new office space and 3,000 square feet of new retail space on the corner of Harrison and Mistral.

And as envisioned, the top two floors of the addition would consist of nine two-story townhomes, ranging in size from 1,200 to 2,000 square feet, with two or three bedrooms apiece.

Since redesigned by BAR Architects to leverage California’s Density Bonus Law, the refined plans for the 2300 Harrison Street site now call for a six-story addition to the existing building, which would yield a total of 24 new apartments – a mix of 14 one-bedrooms and 10 twos – over 27,000 square feet of additional office space, 3,600 square feet of ground floor retail (or potential arts space) and an enclosed garage for 41 cars and 31 bikes, as newly rendered below.

And tomorrow, San Francisco’s Planning Commission is slated to approve the refined plans for the redevelopment, across from Mission Cliffs, as proposed.

In other states and counties, public utilities aren’t headed into chapter 11 bankruptcy. Presumably PG&E will be liquidating assets, like the aforementioned underutilized parcel, in order to pay their outstanding debts or the bankruptcy trustee will do so on their behalf.

Seeing the PG&E lots from above, on Google maps/satellite view, is quite revealing. The 3-4 city blocks they’re using as parking lots for their trucks as well as a half block just north for Xfinity trucks is atrocious.

Gavin Newsom plans to eliminate sales tax on tampons and diapers (This is true. This is not a joke. I heard it on the radio.) Women also use parking lots so no property tax on parking lots s equally promote gender equity. (I’m still unclear how womanly-specific the tax carve outs will be: Bras but not underwear generally? Maybe vajazzling supplies?)

Also, the asymmetric pitched roof building-hiding-behind-the-other-building thing they drew, is not good. As someone here described a different building recently, it looks “basic AF.”

“I just heard that Lyft lost a billion bucks last quarter. We have an app like that in real estate development – has a catchy name. Ready for it…. CITY RUN AFFORDABLE HOUSING”

@leningrad The idea is to discourage underutilization of property in a city that desperately needs housing and, arguably places to store unused cars. Using an entire lot to store a few dozen cars should be strictly discouraged. Multi-story garages, on the other hand, are a bit more viable given the circumstances.

@bachman No idea what you’re insinuating, but taxes are frequently used as a means to offset damages and waste.

In the case of tampons, diapers (as you’ve mentioned) we’re already taxed plenty with breastfeeding and having to carry nasty little Erlichs around inside of us. I’m sure you can give us a break on the cost of diapers and hygiene products.

Totally agree. There should be a state-wide tax on parking (per surface parking space) and it should be steeeep AF. Surface parking is a huge waste of resources and space, it should be discouraged with all means possible.

Hey if you think that’s bad Caltrain has a 17-acre rail yard smack in the middle of the city, parts of which have never been used for any legitimate operating purpose. Some of it is regularly used as employee parking. They have 12 tracks for a service that only enjoys 5 trains per hour at most and usually just one. It’s the biggest waste of space anyone can imagine.

Fine on all your points but we actually need muni garages in San Francisco. And it actually helps when they are centrally located too (if they are at the end of the line then you can’t get service to the OTHER end of the line and need lots of redundant parking/servicing garages). Sorry it’s not pretty.